Srinagar, May 12 -- Srinagar- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Srinagar Bench, has directed the Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department to take a final decision within eight weeks on the regularization claim of a retired daily wager who alleged that he continued in service for more than three decades without being regularized despite fulfilling eligibility conditions.

The direction was passed by CAT Member (Judicial) M.S. Latif while disposing of O.A. No. 492/2024 filed by Mohammad Maqbool Hajam, a resident of Pazalpora Bandipora, against the Union Territory of J&K and other Forest Department authorities.

According to the petition, the applicant was engaged as a daily wager in the Forest Department on November 30, 1993, and comple...